POLSCI 2XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Park Chung-Hee, Syngman Rhee, Filial Piety
14 Dec 2015
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In 1945 the korean peninsula was freed from japanese colonial rule by the us and the su. Per capita income was per year in 1961 and rose to ,115 by 2008. Rok has the advantage of being ethnically homogeneous. Over half the population are either christian or. Filial piety - devotion of the son to the father was the core relationship. Pok politics was centralised with the dominance of the court (in imperial times) and the capital (seoul) over the rest of the country of villages - a lack of intermediate social organisations. Japanese colonialism introduced a wider set of regional relations and industrialisation in the north but in consequence the japanese occupied all the important managerial and administrative posts. The injustices inflicted by japanese colonialists created a strong unifying factor in koreans. A small middle class of korean entrepreneurs emerged that laid the foundation for the indigenous industrialisation drive in the south.
